International Dot Day

K2 and K3 got together in Friday Free Flow to celebrate International Dot Day, based on the book The Dot.

8h30 Reading With Parents

We realise how busy mornings can be with children. Although not all parents are able to stay,  it is great when parents have been able to spend that first ten minutes of the morning in K3, reading with their child and changing their reading book. 

Number of the day

Each day we talk about the number of the day. Children think about the number, and then talk about it in pairs. Then we share a few of the things we know about the number. For instance, here's what we said about day 7 and day 8:

Forest school

Our first visit to the forest in our new K3 classes. A lovely afternoon! Thank you to the parents who helped us!

Cuisenaire Rods

This week the children were introduced to the mathematical resource of Cuisenaire rods. They were asked to construct whatever they desired and then to explain their work to the class.

See an album of images here.

maps

The classes looked at Dinosaurs' Day Out together.

The dinosaurs use a map to find their way.

We made our own maps.

Have a look at an album of our maps.

Welcome!

Welcome to the new K3!

Tens and Ones

We looked a lot recently at the number ten. But we didn't think that much about how important it is in making up our numbers.

Bianca talked about two-digit numbers:


Tens and ones is what you need for a two-digit number.

Like this:

We've used the yellow "tens" and "ones" to make each number. We also put them on top of a hundred square like the kind we often use: